April 20, 2015

Buenas tardes familia! Okay too much information in one email..

Braden and Kaely are having a boy???  Why was I not informed of this earlier?  Hey Braden if youd send me an email once in a while that would be greatly appreciated hahaha :)  And Dad got a new job and we have a tree mansion??  Gosh just move now why dontcha haha!  But dont really... 

Wow has it really been 6 whole months... Time has been going by soooo fast!  In a year from now you will be in Peru momma!  How do you feel about that? :) 

But this week was soo good!  We are teaching a ton and have a few investigators with baptismal dates.  One that we have is named Violeta and she is really great.  She lives with 2 of her sons and her little grandson.  She really loves to read the book of mormon and had such a good experience at church yesterday!  Unfortunatly she had to leave early but she said she would stay the whole 3 hours from now on :) 

Also something really cool happened this week.  So we were having kind of an off day because no one that we had planned on visiting was home and everyone we talked to didnt want to listen to us so we were kind of discouraged.  So we were walking down this street on our way to another lesson when out of no where this random lady started talking to us out of no where.  Me and Hna Rivera looked at eachother trying to remember if or where we have talked to her before.  Finally we asked her name and how she knew us and she explained that she had met with missionaries before and that she was really interested in their message but one day they just stopped coming and she didnt know why and when she saw our name tags she said she felt like she should talk to us.  We sat and talked with her for a while and we really feel like she is going to progress.  She is looking for a change in her life and she wants to be a good example for her son and teach him correct principles in his life.  We have another lesson with her this week and we are going to challenge her to baptism :)

Okay mother I will try to answer all of your questions haha :)

We live in a little room in a members house.  Actually she is a less active member and her husband isnt a member.  They have 3 little kids.  I think their ages are 11, 10 and 6 or something like that.  So pretty much i live with three little siblings hahaha :)  it is suppper funny!  They are super comfortable with us.  They just walk in and climb on our beds and go through our stuff and yeah haha :) But i love it.  Theyre all amazing :) And yes we always have water and everything.  Our room is super tiny and our bathroom doesnt have a door but thats okay :) I wouldnt say its nicer than La Cruz.. It is definitly smaller.. But its just a room, in La Cruz it was an apartment... I dont know haha.  And we dont wash our own clothes, we take it to a member in our ward and she washes them for us :)

My ward here is amazing!  The bishop is awesome.  Yes there are wards and stakes.  The chapel is super small but it is way better than the house chapel in La Cruz.  The ward is kinda small but super strong.  We always have members that are willing to come with us to lessons :)

I am not sure about Mothers Day yet but I will let you know as soon as I find out.  

And I do not think i need anything else.  I can buy whatever I need here :) And yes we are still running, everyday, well except wednesdays and sundays.  We do crossfit on wednesdays haha :) And we walk EVERYWHERE. 

Well that is it for my week.  It sounds like things are crazy busy at home!  Thats good though :)  I hope you all are doing good and you all are happy!  I cant wait to talk to you all on Mothers Day!  Gosh time is going by soooo fast!  I miss you all TONS!  Have a good week! Love you!
Love,

Hermana Lauren Jane Mitchell :)